Marvel's Journey Begins with Psychosis

After the battle, Roland felt relieved.

After all, he has never encountered such an opponent before. If we look at the Fantastic Four as a whole, then this person is smart, has strong attack power, ridiculously high defense, and is good at ground and air combat. There are guys who are long-range, close-range, physical, magic, and can play with fire.

Ever since Roland gained the fire resistance passive, he has never felt that this ability is so scary like today.

You can tell just by looking at that hot man. He almost collapsed and his eyes were straight.

"cough!"

After pretending to cough, Roland straightened his clothes and walked towards his new friends, the Fantastic Four, who had completed "making friends through martial arts".

The stone man also struggled to take a step to the side and forward, with a strong sense of precaution, while the fire man behind him twitched and trembled visibly.

"Hahaha, don't be nervous, don't be nervous, it was just a joke~"

Roland spread his hands and explained: "I never really wanted to do anything to you. Otherwise..."

Needless to say, these guys are all very smart, especially Reed. Of course they can understand the meaning of Roland's unfinished words.

Otherwise: you would have died long ago.

"Mr. Roland, now that the misunderstanding has been resolved, I want to say sorry to you. I also hope you can understand us. After all... forget it.

If there's nothing else, we'll leave here first. "

Reed is indeed a very smart man. He is keenly aware of the dangerous factors in this guy Roland, and he has concluded from just ten minutes of contact: Roland is definitely a person who eats people without spitting out their bones. guy!

So, no matter what he says, don't listen. No matter what he does, pretend he doesn't know.

In short, the farther away from him, the safer it is.

Pulling Susan beside him to stand up, Reid greeted everyone and prepared to leave.

What happened today was indeed something they did wrong. Now that the matter has come to this... we can only try to think in a less aggrieved direction.

Lesson learned, yes.

It’s good to see a real strong man.

Frustration makes people grow, yes.

Johnny will definitely be honest for a long time this time, which is great.

Reed thought this and felt that his mentality had completely calmed down.

"Hey, four of you, don't leave in a hurry."

"What else are you going to do!!!!"

"……what?"

This time it was Roland's turn to be in a daze. He seemed a little confused as to why Mr. Reed, who was so humble, courteous, and gentle, suddenly reacted so violently.

Like a conditioned reflex, Roland was ready to fight again. Another head grew out from the side of his neck, and arms began to sprout from his shoulders...

Reed softened instantly.

"Haha, oh, look, what is this?"

With a smile on his face, he walked up to Roland alone, with his back turned to his three teammates. The smile on his face suddenly disappeared and turned into a serious look.

"In the end what you want!"

"I didn't think anything of it."

Roland looked innocent, rubbed his hands and said, "Didn't you hit me first..."

Reed was stunned, indeed. Roland is so powerful that he has always had the upper hand in all practical senses, making Reed unconsciously assume the perspective of the "oppressed".

Obviously he knew that what Roland said was true. It was true that they didn't know who they were, and they came to beat them on their own initiative...beaten, beaten!

"call……"

Breathing a sigh of relief, Reed calmed down again: "Let me tell the truth. Mr. Roland, it is indeed our fault today. The Human Torch was at fault first, so the four of us got beaten up. Now since you don't want to continue We had a fight and got angry, so why don’t you let us leave?”

"I didn't say I wouldn't let you leave."

"But you do mean it."

"Correct."

Roland also nodded simply: "That's what I really mean."

Seeing him admit it like that, Reid was a little panicked.

"then you……"

"I just want to ask you about someone."

Reed asked cautiously: "I don't guarantee that I know this person."

"Victor. Dr. Victor Doom."

Roland said the name of the person calmly and said with a smile: "You won't tell me that you don't know this person either, right?"

………………

What Roland and Reed talked about was completely unknown to anyone else present. Susan and the others were accustomed to Reed handling these matters and him directing the battle.

Johnny Blaze just didn't want to hear Roland's secrets at all. Who knew whether that madman would kill someone or silence him because of this.

Tell me and I won’t listen.

Therefore, it was not until the Fantastic Four and others left here in embarrassment that Johnny stepped forward, stood side by side with Roland, looked at the disappearing figures of the Fantastic Four, and asked curiously: "Is it really a coincidence? Are you here? There won’t be any other problems, right?”

"Of course not. Besides, that's not a coincidence. It's just that it sounds like a coincidence."

Roland said something that Johnny couldn't understand at all. He wanted to know and hear the details, but he controlled himself.

Don't ask, asking is death.

"Then what should we do now?"

"Keep looking for people. This list is quite thick, and there are plenty of jobs to do."

"So, where is the tinker? Are you not looking for it anymore? Aren't you very interested in this?"

"He, there's no need to look for him for the time being."

Watching the Fantastic Four go away, Roland seemed to be saying to himself: "Someone will help us find him. Ha, free workers are easy to use! Isn't it?

Um? Really? Why do you look so ugly? "

"No, no."

Johnny shook his head in denial, silently shedding the tears of a free worker in his heart.

………………

On the other side, here are the Fantastic Four.

Silence, silence is Cambridge tonight.

Walking all the way from the mountain villa back to the plane where they came from, several people supported each other, but there was no eye contact or dialogue at all.

The most prominent thing is to lower your head, purse your lips, and walk.

When we got into the plane and closed the cabin door, I didn't know who could hold it in first. After taking a big breath, the quiet atmosphere was broken by low sobs.

"Johnny, stop crying."

The Stone Man is a good old man. Ever since he was a normal person, he has been a warm-hearted old man. When he saw Johnny, a young man, he burst into tears, and he made it a habit to comfort him as soon as possible.

"If you can't shed tears, it will hurt your eyes."

However, his level of comfort is indeed the same as before, just not very high.

One of Johnny's eyes was closed and swollen to a slit. If it were normal, this little injury would be nothing. Is it still worth crying?

The beating I received today was really aggrieved. There is really no way to fight back.

Johnny couldn't understand why there would be such a person who would light gasoline on his head and roast a hot man!

This is not an insult!
"Let me see him next time! I will definitely..."

"What must you be doing?! Ah!? Talk!"

Susan and Johnny didn't need to be polite at all. They were siblings, so they naturally said whatever they wanted.

Susan opened the cabin door, grabbed Johnny's clothes and pushed him out. While clenching his fists and punching him, she was still cursing: "Go, go! You know where he is, not you." Are you the first to find him? Go!"

Johnny cried louder, and pulled hard on the edge of the hatch, until his fingers turned white.

Susan felt distressed when she saw her brother like this. To be honest, Johnny had never experienced hardship since he was a child. His native family was good, not to mention how wealthy he was, but he was definitely upper middle class. Johnny was smart and had good academic performance. He is tall and handsome, has good sports scores, can talk, is lovable, and has a very outgoing personality. This has led to him being the star of the world for so many years. Today is his first meal. A big loss, I don’t know if it’s good or bad...

Thinking of this, Susan didn't feel embarrassed for Johnny anymore, pulled him back into the cabin and gave him a hug.

Speaking of which, where was Reed?
Susan suddenly thought that when she usually wanted to blame Johnny, she was never as angry as today. That was because every time she was so angry that she wanted to hit Johnny, there was always Reed who came out to cause trouble. She persuaded him to stop.

What's going on today?

Susan comforted Johnny, then left her brother and went to find her boyfriend.

"Why are you here? What's wrong?"

Reed was silent all the way back, which was okay. He was not usually a talkative person.

But at this time, Susan could still see that Reed seemed to be restless, as if he was thinking about something.

This is very strange.

It wasn't that Susan was exaggerating, the real situation was like this. Reid often thought about something, but there weren't many things that could make him frown, let alone such a tangled moment.

"nothing."

Reed said this, of course, just for Susan An's heart.

He had pretended to be calm enough, but now he was feeling more than agitated.

Because the things Roland told him really made it difficult for him to calm down.

……

In front of the burned-down mountain villa, Reed and Roland had one and only conversation.

Roland asked him a question. If anyone in this world could be smarter than him, who would that person be?

Reed didn't want to show off his superiority, but his reason and his unwillingness to lie made him answer: No.

Reed doesn't think anyone in the world is smarter than him, that's not arrogance, it's just a fact.

Roland asked him another question, is there anyone as smart as him?

This question needs to be studied deeply, because "smart" is not simply a standard existence measured by things like IQ.

However, if there is any...

Doom? !
But... Doom is already dead...

Reed still remembers the first time he and Doom met on the college campus.

They hit it off immediately and regard each other as confidants.

They can see themselves in each other, understand some scientific jokes that others don't understand, laugh out loud at the same time, and often send food to each other who forgets to eat while doing experiments, although most of the time, they are the ones who forget to eat. Both forgot to eat, so Susan brought food to them both.

It was such a wonderful time...

If it hadn't been for that accident, they should have been good friends for life.

The difference between Doom and Reed is that Doom does not have a good family. To be precise, he does not have a family at all. He only has himself.

Throughout college, one thing Doom was always trying to do was build a machine to save his mother from hell.

Although Reed did not believe in hell at that time, he certainly would not be stupid enough to correct his friend who wanted to save his mother and escape.

Just think of it as a thought.

That's how Reed understood it.

It wasn't until Doom actually built the machine that things went wrong.

Reed didn't want to see his friend go crazy, so he came up with a brilliant idea.

He just needs to use the right method to prove Doom wrong.

Telling him that hell doesn't exist is the wrong thing to do.

It proves that there is something wrong with his machine. Hell may exist, but your machine cannot. This is the correct answer.

Reed came to Doom's studio, looked at Doom's formula only once, and found the error.

But Doom didn't think so.

He felt that Reed was talking nonsense to stop him.

So, Doom ignored Reed's obstruction and started the machine.

It turns out that Reed was indeed right, and he was indeed the smarter man.

There are indeed problems with Doom's formula, and there are certainly problems with the machines built based on it.

So it exploded.

Reed was knocked unconscious on the spot. When the explosion occurred, he was relatively far away, so he was not seriously injured. The last thing he saw before he fell unconscious was his friend standing in front of the machine, swallowed by the fire.

When I woke up from the hospital, it was already a day after the explosion.

Doom died, and his distant relatives came to take care of him.

Reed lost his friend forever.

Many years have passed from that day to now. In Reed's memory, Doom is a person who has been dead for a long time and is a person who lives in his memory.

But now Roland tells him that Doom is still alive!

He just had his face blown up and left in fake death. One of the reasons why he left without saying goodbye was because he felt that he was still not smart enough in front of Reed.

Not only that, Roland also told him that Doom still has not given up on his wish to save his mother from hell.

To this end, Doom used his intelligence and his supreme willpower to embark on a path of self-centeredness!

Not only did he continue to study in science and technology, but he also studied magic, and even practiced basic fighting skills to perfection.

Doom, with his own will and wisdom, has transformed himself into an extremely armed strongman.

However, it is a pity that, at least in Reed's view, it is extremely pity that Doom has not been innocent along the way.

He was able to do this on his own because he was stepping on countless bones.

And now, Doom is in this city.

Recalling this point, Reed finally came out of the inexplicable emotion of grief. Looking at Susan beside him, Reed said softly: "I think we may be meeting an old friend soon."

"Old friend?"

Susan looked at Reid in confusion, feeling that Reid needed to speak more clearly.

But Reed just turned his face away and whispered to himself: "Yes, an old friend. An old friend who died that afternoon many years ago."

(End of this chapter)